Efforts made to identify London attack victim: BD high commission

Bangladesh High Commission (HC) in London said on Monday that it was attempting to confirm the identity of the victim of the terror attack on London mosque amid speculations and media reports that he could be a Bangladeshi.

“One Bangladesh High Commission officer in London is in constant communication with London Metropolitan Police and British Bangladeshi community to confirm whether the man killed in the terror attack was a Bangladeshi,” press minister of Bangladesh High Commission in London Nadeem Qadir told reporters.

However, British daily “The Telegraph” reported quoting one Sultan Ahmed, charity worker, that the Finsbury Park mosque victim was an elderly Bangladeshi man who had just left the Muslim Welfare Mosque on Seven Sisters Road.

The report said a man was killed and 10 others were injured as a van drove into worshippers near Finsbury Park mosque while suspect, 48, was arrested after being detained by public.